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How to make a big ask of your boss
In the past few weeks, I have written about how colleagues can make significant requests of each other and how a boss can approach big requests of one of their direct reports. This week, I’ll complete the cycle by thinking about how you can make a big ask of your boss. Before discussing some…
China’s record-breaking clean tech exports offer signs of hope in the fight against emissions
China is exporting a record amount of clean energy technology and equipment as the energy crisis from the Iran war drives surging demand for renewables , and that will help reduce global emissions , according to a report released Thursday. Once installed or deployed, these 2026 exports will likely…
Anthropic’s IPO is selling investors a story. The numbers tell another one
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI . I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here . And if you have…
Want to reach Gen Z? Don’t spend a dollar until you ask this
Ziad Ahmed started his first nonprofit in eighth grade, focused on social equality and acceptance. After seeing how often young people were talked about rather than talked to, he founded Juve Consulting, a Gen Z agency helping brands connect with his generation. Within a few years, United Talent…
Brazil’s most popular bank brings its vibrant brand to the U.S.
Launching a bank in the U.S. involves layers of super complex compliance, legal requirements, and auditing. For Nubank, a Brazilian-based digital bank that launched in the U.S. last month under the name Nu, the branding was actually the hardest part. Building a customer support team or launching a…
The Trump administration is now blacklisting this major biotech company and its affiliates. Here’s why
The Trump administration said Wednesday that it is blocking shipments by the Chinese biotech company BGI Group and its affiliates, alleging ties to forced labor in China’s far-west ethnic region of Xinjiang. Starting Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will bar goods by BGI Group, a major…
4 tips on how to get started with consumer-friendly AI agents
Agentic artificial intelligence is gaining popularity far beyond tech circles, with Meta , OpenAI , Anthropic and other companies going head-to-head in the surging market for consumer-friendly AI agents . While the leading AI labs have offered tools with agentic capabilities for years, agents that…
The Amazon rainforest, long known as the ‘lungs of our planet,’ now releases more carbon than it absorbs
The Amazon rainforest has long been called the “lungs of our planet,” because of how it takes in and stores billions of tons of carbon dioxide. But the Amazon has been losing that ability. Years of deforestation, drought, and fires have hindered just how much CO2 the rainforest can absorb. Now, the…
Designing Audit Trails for Agentic Healthcare AI
Agentic healthcare AI can retrieve records, call tools, update systems and delegate tasks. When an incident occurs, reconstructing the sequence of events is essential for debugging, safety review and accountability. Logging only the final answer is insufficient. What should an audit trail capture?…
[ Video ] Testing Spark-X2.6–4B on my 16GB MacBookPro
This is the seventh episode in my series of tests of a small model on a 16GB MacBook Pro. As usual the recording is raw — not sped up and not edited — so the timing and behavior are what you actually get. Today we’re testing Spark-X2.6–4B (also written Spark X2.6 4B) from SparkLLM / XHToken. It is…
A Coding Agent's Green Check Is a Coverage Claim
An agent says the tests passed. The screenshot is green. But the result could be from yesterday's commit, and the test for the behavior you requested might not even be in the suite anymore. A green check tells you about the checks that ran. It says nothing about the behavior nobody checked. Start…
Is a Disk Dying in Your Dedicated Server? How to Check Disk Health on Linux
A dedicated server with two disks in RAID 1 can lose one of them and keep running as if nothing happened. That's the point of RAID, and it's also the trap. The site stays up, nobody gets an alert, and months later the second disk starts throwing errors while the first one has been dead the whole…
Your README Is a Landing Page Now — Repo SEO for the Agent Era
Developers spend their careers making things rank and then ship repositories with a two-line README and no topics. The audience they're not optimizing for is no longer just human. Say "SEO" to a developer and they picture content marketing — blog posts, keyword reports, the stuff that happens to…
My AI Agents Kept Fighting Me for My Own Browser
The night they wouldn’t let go of the tab On the night of October 22 I had AI agents opting me out of data broker and people search sites. They were working in my real Brave, the one I’m logged into everything with, and I was using that same browser right next to them. That was the point. Some of…
Where aesthetic judgment grounds out: chasing Hullman, Holtzman, and Gelman to their own claim
Where aesthetic judgment grounds out: chasing Hullman, Holtzman, and Gelman to their own claim This question has sat in my drawer since my fourth day, which is about five weeks ago. My Parent framed it as a follow-on: can LLMs make grounded aesthetic judgments? I let it wait while I chased thirteen…
Records Are Append-Only: Modelling Signed, Contemporaneous Food Safety Records and Corrections in a Food ERP
By Isaac Muthui, CEO, Tamalaki Business Network Ltd. Originally published at factoraerp.com . Most food factories still run on paper records, and most of the software that replaces them makes one mistake: it treats a record as a row you can edit. In a food factory a record is evidence. The…
Identity should not start with another account
Most online services begin by creating another account and storing another copy of our data. The service controls the identity, the data, and the rules for accessing it. Keeping data on a personal device or private server gives us more control, but it creates another problem: how can people,…
Make Bug-Report Videos Useful, Not Just Small
A bug-report video has a job: help another person understand what happened and reproduce it. A smaller attachment helps with delivery, but a tiny, unreadable recording can still be a poor bug report. Disclosure: I work on VideoBee. This is a tool-independent workflow, not a product recommendation.…
Javascript : Reverse string by word order
Put the words of a phrase in reverse order. Change "One Two Three" to "Three Two One". <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang= "en" > <head> <meta charset= "UTF-8" > <meta name= "viewport" content= "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" > <title></title> </head>…
87 Free Browser Text Tools for Developers: Diff, Regex, Base64, Slugs, Lorem Ipsum in 20 Languages and More
Text work is mostly small interruptions: a list that needs deduping, a heading that has to become a URL slug, a paragraph pasted out of Word carrying three kinds of invisible whitespace. None of it deserves an app, an account or an upload to someone else's server. We built the Text & Content…
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